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...year-old politico, who assumed mayorship in January,is the first Black mayor in the history of Massachusetts and one ofthe first openly gay mayors in the country...
Lechery is an expectedly prominent theme of this biography of perhaps the randiest American hero since Benjamin Franklin. J.F.K.'s model was, of course, his father, Joseph P., financier, politico and womanizer who, foreshadowing his second son's White House trysts, brought his mistress home. An old chum reports that Jack's favorite phrase was "Slam, bam, thank you, ma'am." Inga Arvad, the Danish-born journalist who was Kennedy's lover during the early 1940s, remembers "a boy, not a man, intent upon ejaculation and not a woman's pleasure." Lem Billings, Kennedy's oldest friend, is more sympathetic...
...certain places, these references are convincing. Aegeus (Ben Vilhauer), the king of Corinth who has banished Medea, appears as a sleazy politico with a carefully blow-dried hairdo. He thunders that "the best things in life are family and country." Vilhauer's glib, funny performance suggests Medea as a figure in rebellion against conventional morality and "family values" fascism. A contemporary poem which the chorus recites to open the show similarly connects Medea's story to issues of abortion and societal restrictions on women...
...Limbaugh as "Jabba the Talk Show Host," says, "Buchanan had a killer instinct; he wasn't afraid to lick up the blood. But Rush leaves it there and just chews off the flesh." Harry Shearer, the actor (This Is Spinal Tap, The Simpsons) and host of his own politico-comic radio show, is kinder, gentler to Limbaugh: "This country runs on personality, not on ideas. I think if Rush were spouting diametrically opposed ideas, he'd be just as popular. The only people he is dangerous for are the people in time slots opposite...
...influential Independent politico called theCambridge Civic Association (CCA) a "realpolitical machine" that has used his indictment tojustify the controversial firing of City ClerkJoseph P. Connarton. Connarton, who many said hadpolitical ties with Walsh, was a "sacrificiallamb" to the CCA, said Walsh...